All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

by Andrea Barnet
All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

by Andrea Barnet

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Overview

They were smart. Sassy. Daring. Exotic. Eclectic. Sexy. And influential. One could call them the first divas—and they ran absolutely wild. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses, and benefactresses. They were thinkers and they were drinkers. They eschewed the social conventions expected of them—to be wives and mothers—and decided to live on their own terms. In the process, they became the voices of a new, fierce feminine spirit.

There's Mina Loy, a modernist poet and much-photographed beauty who traveled in pivotal international art circles; blues divas Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters; Edna St. Vincent Millay, the lyric poet who, with her earthy charm and passion, embodied the '20s ideal of sexual daring; the avant-garde publishers Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap; and the wealthy hostesses of the salons, A'Lelia Walker and Mabel Dodge. Among the supporting cast are Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, Ma Rainey, Margaret Sanger, and Gertrude Stein.

Andrea Barnet's fascinating accounts of the emotional and artistic lives of these women—together with rare black-and-white photographs, taken by photographers such as Berenice Abbott and Man Ray—capture the women in all their glory.

This is a history of the early feminists who didn't set out to be feminists, a celebration of the rebellious women who paved the way for future generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565123816
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 01/03/2004
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 977,775
Product dimensions: 5.96(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard, Andrea Barnet has been a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review since 1985. Her articles on art and culture have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Mirabella, Working Mother, Avenue, and Architectural Record. She lives in New York City and is married to the painter Kit White. They have one daughter.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsXI
Cast of CharactersXV
Introduction: Wild in Pursuit1
1Mina Loy: a Modern Self-Experiment15
2Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap: Life for Art's Sake59
3Edna St. Vincent Millay: Imprisoned in the Personal89
4Entertaining Bohemia: the Hostesses and Their Salons135
5Bessie Smith: 'Tain't Nobody's Business if I Do!161
6Ethel Waters: Am I Blue?193
Epilogue: the End of the Party221
Notes227
Bibliography247
Illustration Credits251
Index255
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